See Andrews, Robert
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Robert Andrews (1725–1806) by Thomas Gainsborough, c.1750 © National Gallery, London / The Bridgeman Art Library
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Andrews, Robert (1725–1806), landowner and subject of a painting by Thomas Gainsborough, was born at Bulmer, Essex, on 10 November 1725, the son of Robert Andrews (1661–1735) and his fourth wife, Martha (d. 1749), the daughter of James Brewster (d. 1725)...
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Natalie Alice Bevan (1909–2007) by Mark Gertler, 1928 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bevan [née Ackenhausen], Natalie Alice (1909–2007), artist, muse, and collector, was born on 22 May 1909 at 2 Pembroke Cottages, Edwardes Square, London, the elder daughter and eldest of three children of Kurt Bernhard Heinrich Carl Ackenhausen (1878/9–1954) and his wife, Alice Katherine Inchbold, ...
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Penelope Boothby (1785–1791) by Joshua Reynolds, 1788 private collection
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Rosemary Mitchell
Boothby, Penelope (1785–1791), artist's model and subject of poetry, was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, on 11 April 1785, the daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, seventh baronet (1744–1824), and his wife, Susanna (1755–1822), daughter and sole heir of Robert Bristoe or Bristow of Micheldever, Hampshire...
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Bowman [née Kay], Dame (Mary) Elaine Kellett- (1923–2014), politician, was born at Claremont, Clifton Drive, Lytham, Lancashire, on 8 July 1923, the daughter of Walter Kay, leather manufacturer and later farmer, and his wife, Edith Annie, née Leather. After attending the local ...
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Brooker [née Beacon], Daphne Elizabeth (1927–2012), model and fashion teacher, was born on 8 June 1927 at the Ormond Maternity Home, 29 Blantyre Street, Chelsea, London, the elder child and only daughter of Charles Beacon, chauffeur, and his wife, Mabel Elizabeth, née...
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Anna Ready
Brzeska, Sophie Suzanne Gaudier- [née Zofia Stefania Brzeska] (1872–1925), writer and poet, was born in Galicia on 6 June 1872, the third of nine children of Mieczysław Brzeski (1840–1899), a lawyer and participant in the Polish uprising of 1863...
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Jonathan Buttall (1752–1805) by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770 [The blue boy] courtesy of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
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David Tyler
Buttall, Jonathan (1752–1805), ironmonger, the possible subject of Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy, was the eldest of the three sons of Jonathan Buttall (d. 1768), ironmonger, and Elizabeth, née Higgins (d. 1780). He was probably born at the family's house in ...
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Fanny Cornforth [Sarah Cox] (1835–1909) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, c. 1860 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Christopher Whittick
Cornforth [other married names Hughes, Schott], Fanny [née Sarah Cox] (1835–1909), artists' model and intimate companion of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was born at Steyning, Sussex, on 3 January 1835, and baptized there on 1 February 1835, the daughter of William Cox (...
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Iain R. Torrance
Cranfield, Charles Ernest Burland (1915–2015), United Reformed Church minister and New Testament scholar, was born at Branksome, Old Park Ridings, Winchmore Hill, north London, on 13 September 1915, the second child of Charles Ernest Cranfield (1876–1975), then a solicitor’s managing clerk, and his wife ...
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Roberto C. Ferrari
Eaton [née Antwistle/Entwistle], Fanny (1835–1924), artist’s model, was born a freewoman of colour in Jamaica, on 23 June 1835. According to the parish register at St Andrew’s, Surrey, Jamaica, recorded on 15 November 1835, she had been baptized privately in ...
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Fanny Eaton (1835–1924), by Walter Fryer Stocks, c. 1859
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See Birley, Marcus Oswald Hornby Lecky [Mark]
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Pamela Clemit and Jenny McAuley
Fenwick, John (bap. 1757, d. 1823), radical journalist and author, was baptized at the parish church of St Mary, Newington, Southwark, London, on 24 April 1757, the eldest son of John Fenwick (d. 1787) and his wife, Priscilla (b. c.1735), ...
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Barbara Kathleen Goalen (1921–2002) by Norman Parkinson, 1949 Norman Parkinson Ltd. / Fiona Cowan; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
